Madrid  - Villarreal midfield anchorman Marcos Senna will be out of action for around three weeks with a thigh injury, the Spanish football club announced on Wednesday.

Senna, 32, tore a muscle in his left thigh in Saturday's 2-0 defeat at home to Malaga, a result which pulled Villarreal down to fifth in La Liga.

Senna will miss the next league matches as well as a Champions League quarter-final return leg at England's Arsenal which was scheduled for later Wednesday.

Madrid - Constant intermarriage between relatives was the main cause of the extinction of the Habsburg dynasty in Spain, which it ruled from 1516 to 1700, press reports Wednesday quoted a new study as saying.

Described as the first to apply genetics to a Spanish royal dynasty, the study confirms earlier hypotheses by many historians.

Spain's last Habsburg king, Chlares II, was unable to have children.

Murcia, Spain - The white bikini stood out brilliantly against the young Spanish woman's body, whose arms, legs, abdomen and face were almost black. Though the sun beats down mercilessly on Spain's Costa Calida, or "Warm Coast," the woman's colour was not a deep suntan. She and her girlfriends had come to Lo Pagan, on the Mar Menor, to cover themselves with medicinal mud.

Jandia, Spain - Some people smile when they see them, others find them annoyingly bourgeois and simply shake their head. Whatever reactions they provoke, the round rock shelters on the southern beaches of Fuerteventura, one of Spain's Canary Islands , are an integral part of many people's holidays and a second lodging for more than a few tourists. Roofless, about 2.5 metres in diameter, and fashioned from local volcanic rock, the shelters offer protection from the wind in addition to privacy for those inside them, most of whom prefer to sunbathe in the nude.

Madrid - The militant separatist group ETA early Sunday warned the incoming Basque government to brace for attacks. In an ETA communique published in the Basque newspaper Gara on Sunday, the group designated the incoming prime minister Patxi Lopez and his government as the "priority target."

Earlier this month, a new parliament was constituted in Spain's Basque region that has the first conservative president taking power since the region was granted broad autonomy in 1979.

Madrid - The militant separatist group ETA early Sunday warned the incoming Basque government to brace for attacks. In an ETA-communique published in the Basque newspaper Gara on Sunday, the group designated the incoming prime minister Patxi Lopez and his government as the "priority target."

Earlier this month, a new parliament was constituted in Spain's Basque that has the first conservative president taking power since the region was granted broad autonomy in 1979.